Before it is built,
it is drawn.
Studio LV is the design studio inside VME Group. On some projects it draws the whole venue, kitchen included; on others only the front of house. It depends on the project.
Two languages,
one project.
3D concepts are how a client sees the room before it exists — the counter in stone and oak, the copper stills, the robata grill under the extraction canopy. They settle the argument about what the space should feel like.
Technical drawings are how the room actually gets built — equipment layouts, extraction and gas routes, electrical and plumbing services, coordinated with the architect and the MEP engineer. They settle the argument about whether it can be built at all.
Where the scope allows it, both come from the same team on the same project — which is why what arrives on site matches what was agreed in the room.
How the room looks
before it exists.
VAMOS Beach Club & Restaurant
Thirteen food and beverage areas
Mobile carts and stations
The ones people remember
Fire, Earth & Sky
Pool bar precinct
Five outlets, one resort
A dining room is only
as good as its kitchen.
Most projects split the two: an interior studio designs the room, an equipment supplier fills the kitchen, and the drawings meet for the first time on site.
That is where the counter turns out too shallow for the pass, the extraction cuts through the feature ceiling and the bar has nowhere to put the ice.
Studio LV exists so that conversation happens at the drawing stage. The counter, the pass, the show kitchen and the service route are designed as one object, by one team, with one set of dimensions.
How far the studio goes is decided project by project: sometimes the whole venue, sometimes the front of house alongside another team. Either way it is drawn with the kitchen in the room, not after it.
Four disciplines.
Concept & direction
The idea of the room: reference, material palette, mood, and the story the space tells before anyone reads the menu.
Space planning
Covers, circulation, service routes and sightlines — laid out around how the outlet actually operates, not around the render.
Bespoke joinery
Counters, bars, buffets, show-kitchen fronts and display: drawn to millimetre and coordinated with the equipment behind them.
Materials & lighting
Finishes that survive a commercial kitchen environment, and lighting that flatters food, staff and guests at every hour of service.
A palette is a decision,
not a mood board.
We work to a tight palette and we hold it. Every colour on a Studio LV drawing carries a Pantone or RAL reference and a physical sample signed off before anything is ordered.
A warm white on a screen and a warm white in a lacquer are not the same thing. This is the family we keep returning to: quiet stone and plaster as the ground, wood and brass for warmth, one glazed colour and one dark to hold it together.
The room is the sum
of a few hundred choices.
The FF&E schedule: every item drawn or specified, with dimensions, finish, supplier and lead time.
Lighting
Decorative and technical kept separate — the fittings for the picture, the beam angles, colour temperature and dimming curve for the room.
Surfaces
Marble and travertine where they get photographed, quartz and stainless where the abuse is real. Veining matched across joints, edges drawn.
Furniture
Chairs and banquettes chosen for the cover time you want, tables sized to the menu, outdoor pieces specified for salt, sun and chlorine.
Rugs & textiles
Rugs, upholstery and drapery in contract-rated fibres — acoustics as much as decoration.
Bespoke joinery
Bars, buffets, hosts’ desks, display and back-of-bar drawn to the millimetre alongside the equipment behind them.
Tableware & OS&E
Plates, glassware, cutlery, trays and trolleys: the last layer the guest actually touches.
Send us a floor plan.
Even a rough one. We will come back with a first layout and an honest view of what fits.